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“Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.” I don’t know who said that, but in the midst of the endless drizzle that comprises the Vancouver winter, I’ll go anywhere it’s hot and sunny, which is how I found myself in Cave Creek, Ariz. It was about 30 C under dazzling blue skies and bull fights were on the agenda.

According to the Nielsen Music 360 survey, 17 per cent of us will attend a music festival this year. Even though there now are hundreds of music festivals taking place this summer, the best known is the Calgary Stampede, which isn’t often thought of a music festival.

Dirt and dust flew as four tiny sets of hooves pounded across the PNE Agrodome floor with a chuckwagon and driver in tow. The jangle of size-extra-small tack and the clatter of pint-sized wagon wheels echoed through the arena, and the drivers urged on their funny little horses, but the wails of encouragement from the crowd made it clear that miniature chuckwagon racing is no joke.

CALGARY — A provincial cabinet minister has been forced to repay $10,600 for dozens of expenses racked up in her first five months in office, including a $4,000 airfare charge to have her daughter and mother fly with her to the London Olympics.

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